DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Bristol

Development Operations Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Bristol is £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 85 57
Rank change year-on-year +8 -28 +63
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 8 45 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.71% 1.83% 4.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 1.90% 4.73%
Number of salaries quoted 6 44 70
10th Percentile £51,625 £55,625 £51,225
25th Percentile £58,063 £63,438 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +23.08% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,813 £87,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £93,750 - £96,539
South West median annual salary £63,750 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.93% +7.69% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Bristol with a recognized job title 1,039 2,373 1,566
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 96.66% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 771 1,604 1,334
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £56,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -5.83% +12.68%
75th Percentile £69,125 £70,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
South West median annual salary £45,150 £52,000 £54,545
% change year-on-year -13.17% -4.67% +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Bristol

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Bristol.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Bristol

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Bristol

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Bristol region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) Terraform
3 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (62.50%) Bash
4 5 (62.50%) Azure
4 5 (62.50%) Python
5 4 (50.00%) Agile
5 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (50.00%) Docker
5 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (37.50%) Software Delivery
6 3 (37.50%) Ansible
6 3 (37.50%) AWS
6 3 (37.50%) GitHub
6 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
6 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
6 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
7 2 (25.00%) Culture Change
7 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
7 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
7 2 (25.00%) Puppet
7 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
7 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (25.00%) Coaching
7 2 (25.00%) Finance
7 2 (25.00%) Migration
7 2 (25.00%) Microsoft

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (25.00%) Serverless
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 1 (12.50%) Datadog
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) VMS
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Software Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Coaching
4 2 (25.00%) Cost Management
4 2 (25.00%) Culture Change
4 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (25.00%) GitOps
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Bash
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) Bicep
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Terraform
2 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (37.50%) Ansible
4 2 (25.00%) Argo
4 2 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat